SEND Teaching Assistant
Sandhills Community Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8FNThis job expired on 10 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
29 January 2024
Closing date
10 December 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £16368 to £16642
SEND Teaching Assistant job summary
Sandhills Primary School is a welcoming and supportive school with a team of enthusiastic staff who are committed to doing their best for the children and the community. The school is a family that supports and encourages everyone to work hard and care for each other.
The post is a fixed term position, term time only for 31.25 hours per week until 31st August 2025 in the first instance. Actual pay £16368 to £16642 pro rata. Working Hours are 31.25 per week, term time only Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 3.15 pm including a 30 minute lunch break.
Are you already a TA, or considering a career in education and teaching and have vision and a passion for bringing out the best in all children and can make a real difference in our school? We are looking for an excellent SEND teaching assistant to support individual children with SEND, and who is someone who can make a real difference in our school. The appointment is fixed term in the first instance to 31/08/2025. If you are interested in a career in education, we have experience of supporting staff to go on and training as teachers at university or through the School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT).
We can offer you:
-Well behaved children who are enthusiastic and keen to learn
-A hard-working, supportive and friendly team of staff
-Excellent support from Teachers
-A fantastic working environment with great indoor and outdoor facilities including large sports fields, an amphitheatre and wild area
-Highly supportive families, Governing Body, PTA and local community
-The opportunity to make a significant impact on our school and local community
What we can offer
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
What benefits does the Trust offer to its employees?
Annual pay increase for support staff (in line with grade boundaries) and for Teachers (subject to government framework and successful performance review)
A Defined Benefit Pension Scheme with favourable terms for all employees
(Teachers Pension for Teachers; LGPS for Support Staff)
Moving from the public sector? Those without a break in service can be reassured that RLT will recognise their continuous service.
Employee centred and family friendly policies and practises that support you in and beyond your workplace.
Offering flexible working wherever we can, in order to support the work life balance of our employees.
Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave.
Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 24 days rising to 32 day plus bank holidays per annum - dependent on grade of role and length of service)
Cycle to work scheme
Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
How to apply / closing date / where to find further details
Closing date - Sunday 10th December
Shortlisting date - Monday 11th December
Interview date - to be confirmed
The River Learning Trust and Sandhills Community Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
About Sandhills Community Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 233 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Sandhills Community Primary School is an inclusive school serving several vibrant and diverse communities on the outskirts of Oxford. There are currently 228 students at the school. We offer our children an ambitious curriculum, based around our core values of Respect, Relationships, Responsibility and Resilience, to ensure that all children have the opportunity to achieve their potential both academically and as citizens of the future. The school has recently been rated “Good” by Ofstead in October 2022.
Sandhills Community Primary School is part of the River Learning Trust, which presents opportunities for leaders and staff to work collaboratively and efficiently together between schools in the community. There is an extensive professional network across the Trust which supports and enhances collaboration, research and learning opportunities for pupils, staff and parents.
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